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Sunday, July 13, 2014

Sunday Morning Bonus Pulp: Dime Detective, March 1938

DIME DETECTIVE certainly gave BLACK MASK a run for its money as the best of the hardboiled detective pulps. In this issue you've got Carroll John Daly's Race Williams, a classic story by Raymond Chandler, and a story by one of the top pulpsters, Frederick C. Davis. Plus a pretty distinctive cover, too. There's a good reason people collect DIME DETECTIVE.

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Great cover and I've owned several copies of this issue over the years. Now with Raymond Chandler and in decent condition it can bring upwards of a thousand dollars. Artist Rafael Desoto once told me you can't go wrong with skeletons and pretty girls on the cover.

Keith is right about the reprints from DIME DETECTIVE. Altus Press has recently published several collections called The Dime Detective Library. Each volume reprints stories starring a series character like The Rambler, Mr. Maddox, The Marquis of Broadway, Keyhole Kerry, Inspector Allhoff, etc.